April 2025 North Central U.S. Climate and Drought Summary and Outlook

The focus area for this webinar series is the North Central region of the U.S. (from the Rockies to the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley). These free monthly webinars provide and interpret timely information on current climate and drought conditions, as well as climatic events like El Niño and La Niña. April 2025 topics include hydrology updates on flooding and worsening/improving drought conditions, impacts, and concerns, and major river updates (Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio); wildfire risk updates; spring growing season conditions and concerns, recent conditions, trends, and major and unusual climate/weather events and their impacts; and temperature, precipitation, and drought outlooks for the next few weeks, months, and seasons.